A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
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[1840]
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Credit: A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing things they generally give, increase the burning pain, it subsides itself, spontaneously. After a short time, then, or, if there has been much pain, after this has subsided, what we call the sec- ond stage commences. This consists simply of an infectious discharge, issuing from the orifice of the penis, without much pain. This discharge is more or less in quantity in different persons, and is much increased by whatever may excite, or irregu- larities of any kind. And, when it once sets in there is no exactly telling how long it may contin- ue, or how it is to terminate; but let it ever be remembered, that, as long as this discharge contin- ues the disease may be communicated by infection. But, thus far, I have only spoken of a Gonorrhoea in its simple form, and have mentioned those symp- toms only which are essential to it, and which are never absent from it; there are hoAvever other symptoms which are only sometimes present,—which may, or may not present themselves, but which, when they do occur (and some of them generally do) form the severest part of the complaint and call for immediate and peculiar remedies. In fact, it is from the want of knowing something of the na- ture oi these symptoms which gives to Gonorrhoea its most distressing character and leads to the worst of consequences. These circumstances which may, or may not occur in Gonorrhoea, are called occasional